We’ve written often at this site about the Miami Herald’s unabashed, obsessive bias against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
For instance, they’ve done things like turn stories that had nothing to do with DeSantis into a story bashing DeSantis. Then there was the “scandal” about how he was no longer using the word “vaccine” when describing the coronavirus vaccine. He would call it “the jab,” which to the Florida media was code for DeSantis promoting vaccine hesitancy or something.
They have also coddled discredited former Florida DOH IT staffer Rebekah, who used to be a media darling and was supposed to take down DeSantis. However, Jones has been reduced to spreading wacky conspiracy theories via sock puppet Twitter accounts.
The instances are too numerous to document in one post, but the latest one may be the most unintentionally hilarious ever, and is definitely one you can file under “You cannot make this up.”
In the Herald’s most recent DeSantis hit piece, they took aim at the fact that DeSantis (rightly) often calls out the corporate media for their “fake news” stories, which he did Monday in reminding people that it was the one year anniversary of the bogus 60 Minutes “report” on how he handled distribution of the coronavirus vaccine.
In an attempted gotcha, the Herald wrote that though DeSantis makes it a routine practice to decry “fake news,” his campaign allegedly used a “fake news site” to raise money:
DeSantis calls out ‘fake news,’ but his campaign used fake news site to raise cash https://t.co/Fzxjqr65rn
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) April 5, 2022
The problem here is that when you get to the meat of the story, the site they’re referring to is … the Babylon Bee, a satire site:
Florida Governor. Ron DeSantis isn’t shy about labeling “fake news media” the enemy.
But when it comes to raising money for his re-election bid, the Republican governor’s campaign and an associated political committee have sought help from a satire website with the tagline “Fake news you can trust.”
Is this “news”? Only in the warped minds of the “reporters” at the Herald, who apparently either don’t know or don’t care that the fake news sites like their paper publish is not the same thing as the satire stories the Bee publishes. In fact, the Bee has frequently satirized the media’s coverage of DeSantis and I think it’s a safe bet that the Bee will have a very creative response to the Herald’s latest DeSantis “scandal.”
According to me, this scandal would be made worse if Ron DeSantis were found running advertisements in the Miami Herald. The Miami Herald has been known for publishing fake news and the debunked DeSantis scandals.
The Miami Herald has written an entire article regarding Ron DeSantis advertisement in the Babylon Bee.
The Miami Herald also equated The Babylon Bee (satire website) and The Miami Herald (newspapers that lie but pretend to be telling the truth, The Miami Herald) https://t.co/vCcHSbVe8d pic.twitter.com/RLSzVImAYp
— Max (@MaxNordau) April 5, 2022
To address this issue, myself had the following advice:
Perhaps it’s time to stop spreading one Ron DeSantis “scandal” upon another. @MiamiHeraldPeople might be prepared to fork out more than $3 per month to receive your “newspaper” #JustAThought pic.twitter.com/7HZwdloQDP
— Sister Toldjah 😁 (@sistertoldjah) April 5, 2022
Think they’ll take it? Nah.
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